Get ready to put it all together!
Please get your
interactive notebook.
Read the board.
Laptop safely off your
desk.
Brainstorm game! 60 seconds
Oil and gas formation
Coal, Oil and Natural Gas are fossil fuels
fossil fuels contain hydrocarbons with lots of bondsmore bonds to break = more energy
Interactive Notebook
Title: Carbon Cycle
Date: Jan 23
Fold and glue in Carbon cycle
Add to the Carbon Cycle notes:
Energy = The ability to do work
Fuel = a substance which can be
used to provide energy
Finding the oil
3D seismic imaging is like an ultrasound
Drill to the oil, pump it out
Primary oil recovery: oil flows into well because of gravity and pressure.
Spindletop – Beaumont 1903
Secondary recovery: hydrocarbons must be
forced out by water (or gases like CO2) to
maintain pressure in the system
Horsehead
pump
Injection
well
Production
well
Tertiary recovery – a base like
soap is added to water to move
the last hydrocarbons
Base
added
The current oil Boom!
 2005 – Fracking technology makes more reserves economically
viable
 2011 – current boom explodes with fracking
 US crude output expected to crest around 9.5 million barrels per
day in 2016, then begin to decline in 2020. (7.5 million barrels/day
projected through 2040)
 Tradeoffs!
Quick check – put the following steps in
order!
A. Shale rock fractures releasing petrochemicals
B. Borehole drilled vertically past water table
C. Natural gas and petroleum rises through well back to surface and is
collected in tanks.
D. Propants keep fractures open and gas flowing
E. Fracking fluids sent down well under pressure
F. Horizontal drilling through shale layer
Check it! B, F, E, A, D, C
Purpose: to separate
crude oil into different
products based on
length of hydrocarbon
chains!
Distillation column at refinery
These must be on your flow map!
Refining
Oceans
Drilling
Carcinogenic benzene
Fracking
Separates by length of hydrocarbon
Primary, secondary, tertiary oil production
Oil Production
Oil formation in carbon cycle
3D seismic imaging
Plankton
Wax
Houston Ship Channel
Gasoline
Consumers use them
Fabric
Anaerobic sediments
Heat pressure, millions of years